It’s the same thing…while the people here might be willing to split hairs on the exact meaning of those terms the people you are taking about are not going to.

It’s the same thing…while the people here might be willing to split hairs on the exact meaning of those terms the people you are taking about are not going to. Strategic ambiguity around “freedom” “free market” etc is a useful tool to prevent change. It creates a self reinforcing mythology in peoples heads and enough confusion about reality that blaming the victims for being “unprepared” can exist in the broad/abstract while also still feeling empathy and dying “that’s bad” in individual cases.